Reinventing Professionals

I spoke with Ray Biederman, the Co-Founder and CEO of Proteus Discovery Group, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and is a founding partner of Mattingly Burke Cohen & Biederman. We discussed the genesis of Proteus Discovery Group, the benefits of simultaneously managing a law firm and a legal services company, and how e-discovery is evolving.

In this 38th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed achieving work-life balance, building momentum in 2025, and preparing for Legalweek.

I spoke with Douwe Groenevelt, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel & Head of Legal at ASML, and a featured speaker at the Lexpo Conference, taking place in Amsterdam on June 16th and 17th. We discussed the mission of Law & Ops, the Tech in Legal initiative, the most significant opportunities for in-house legal teams to innovate, and how AI is reshaping corporate law departments.

I spoke with Doug Kaminski, the Chief Revenue Officer at Infinnium, a data governance platform. We discussed how information governance affects an organization's data security, best practices for organizations to build better data hygiene, and ways that artificial intelligence is affecting these efforts.

I spoke with Lynn Tubalinal, the Director of Litigation Support at Dykema, and Julia Voss, the Director of Litigation Support and eDiscovery at UB Greensfelder. Both are among the industry leaders who contributed to the recently published report - Advancing Litigation Support to Fuel Growth in a Changing Legal Market - supported by Opus 2. We discussed the effect of the increasing volume and variety of data, how a team knows that it is time to upgrade its technology, successful strategies for driving adoption, and effective generative AI use cases.

I spoke with Renee Meisel, the CEO of UnitedLex, a tech-enabled legal services provider. We discussed what differentiates UnitedLex from other providers of legal services, how leaders can promote a culture emphasizing innovation, collaboration, and a unified sense of purpose, and trends driving the most significant change in legal.

I spoke with Daniel Booter, the Director of Marketing of MacroAgility Systems, an iManage partner specializing in integrating tailored solutions and implementations for law firms. We discussed how MacroAgility Systems provides tailored technology solutions for law firms, the problems iSyncKit and Uplift Migration solve, ways to streamline document management, and best practices for optimizing a firm's legal tech infrastructure.

I spoke with Joseph Frantz, the Founder of TimeSentry, an AI native time tracking solution for hourly billing professionals. We discussed how law firms can use artificial intelligence to capture more value from clients and work smarter, ways that organizations currently approach this process, and where legal technology is headed in 2025.

In this 37th episode of Charting Change in Legal, Caroline Hill, Editor and Publisher of Legal IT Insider, and I discussed the market moves in January 2025, the accelerating pace of change in legal, and AI pitfalls to watch.

I spoke with Josh Smith, the Information Security Manager at Ogletree Deakins, and Ken Jones, a Lecturer at the Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business and the Principal Consultant with Xerdict Group, the technology subsidiary of Tanenbaum Keale. The two leaders are the co-chairs of ILTA's 2025 EVOLVE conference. We discussed how the event will address the unique challenges law firms have with protecting sensitive client data, practical and actionable AI topics, and speakers who will focus on emerging cybersecurity threats.